Introduction by MC Weijia Jiang

Welcome John Wang President, Asian American Business Development Center

Presentation of Norman C.T. LiuPinnacle Award to President and CEO, GE Capital Aviation Presented by Keith Sherin Chairman & CEO, GE Capital

Vik Sawhney Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and Chief Operating Officer of the Private Equity group Presented by Prakash Melwani Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and Chief Investment Officer of the Private Equity group

Introduction of Robert MiglaniBusiness Mentorship Sr. Director of External Medical Affairs, PfizerNetwork by 2012 Outstanding 50 Award Recipient

Presentation of Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Awards

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I extend my congratulations to the 51 amazing recipients of the 2014 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award and to the two Pinnacle Award recipients, for their unflinching determination to succeed, and for their many accomplishments.

Tonight, as we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Asian American Business Development Center and the thirteenth anniversary of the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award Gala, the award recipients will join the ranks of over 600 high achieving individuals who have been honored at this prestigious event since 2001. They represent a microcosm of the best of Asian American entrepre-neurship and professionalism, with a pool of diverse and multi-talented individuals engaged in a wide range of business interests. The depth and breadth of their business undertakings clearly demonstrate that Asian Americans are an integral part of the larger economy. Asian American entrepreneurs have multilingual and multicultural backgrounds that make them ideally suited to helping the U.S. stay competitive in the global economy. Corporations can leverage their Asian American profes-sionals within their ranks to enhance business in Asia and broaden their reputation as a global leader.

The past and present award recipients are a unique group of individuals who have what it takes to mentor the next generation of Asian American business men and women. We are excited to announce the launch of the Business Mentorship Network and are thrilled to have received support from Pfizer and Macy’s Foundation to enable it to be rolled out in the coming months. Finally, I would like to thank all our sponsors for their support, without which this event would not be possible.

Sincerely yours,

John WangPresident, AABDC

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Gala Dinner MC Weijia JiangWeijia Jiang was born in Xiamen, China, and raised in West Virginia, to which she immigrated with her parents at age two. Ms. Jiang got her first TV gig at age 13, as a reporter anchor for ChannelOne news in Los Angeles.Today, Ms. Jiang is an award winning journalist who joined the Channel 2 news team in 2012. Since then, she has covered every major news story in the Tri-State area, including Superstorm Sandy, the school shooting in Newtown Connecticut, and the Boston Marathon Bombings, where she reported from the “frozen zone” for more than 12 hours during the search for the suspect. She has been honored with an Emmy, Edward R Murrow, and AP awards for her work. Most recently she was nominated for the Best General Assignment Reporter in the New York television market.

Ms. Jiang earned graduated from The College of William and Mary, where she studied Philosophy and Chemistry. She also earned a Master’s degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

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Award Gala CommitteeJoyce ChangJ.P. Morgan

Michael E. ChenChen & Associates

Youngsuk ChiElsevier

Wei Sun ChristiansonMorgan Stanley

Raj DhandaMorgan Stanley

Nusrat DurraniMTV World

Mehmood KhanPepsiCo

Ida LiuCiti Private Bank

Bob MiglaniPfizer, Inc.

Kamesh NagarajanMorgan Stanley Smith Barney

Dinesh C. Paliwal Harman International Industries, Inc.

Dennis C. K. Poon Thornton Tomasetti

Edwin ReyesDeutsche Bank

Deven Sharma

Ted Teng Leading Hotels of the World

George Wang Haynes and Boone. LLP

Charlotte YehAARP Services Inc.

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PINNACLE AWARD

Norman C.T. Liu President&CEO•GECapitalAviationServices

Norman C. T. Liu is President and CEO of GE Capital Aviation Services

(GECAS), the commercial aviation leasing and financing unit of General

Electric. Mr. Liu is a 26-year veteran of GE Capital, with 18 years at

GECAS. Mr. Liu joined GECAS in 1995 and served as Executive

Vice President of Commercial Operations from 1996 to 2009.

He was named a Corporate Vice President of GE Capital in 1992

and was appointed a Corporate Vice President of GE in 2002.

Mr. Liu has served as Corporate Champion of the GE Asian Pacific

American Forum and is a member of the Committee of 100, a leading

Chinese American organization, and AALDEF, Asian American Legal Defense and

Education Fund.

Mr. Liu earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale and an MBA from

Harvard Business School.

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PINNACLE AWARD

Vik Sawhney SeniorManagingDirectoratBlackstoneand ChiefOperatingOfficerofthePrivateEquitygroup

Vik Sawhney is a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and Chief Operating Officer of the Private Equity group. Before joining Blackstone in 2007, Mr. Sawhney worked as a Managing Director in the Financial Sponsors Group at Deutsche Bank, where he was responsible for managing the firm’s relationships with Blackstone and several other large private equity firms. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Sawhney was an Associate at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Sawhney represented Blackstone as a Rockefeller Fellow during 2010-2011. He currently serves on the Board of Harlem RBI, an east Harlem social services and educational organization, and is also a Trustee of the Rye Country Day School.

Mr. Sawhney received a BA, magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also received a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

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A. Salman Amin ChiefOperatingOfficer,NorthAmericaMarketsS.C.Johnson&Son,Inc.

A. Salman Amin is Chief Operating Officer, North America Markets at S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., a 127-year-old company family company, based in the U.S. that manufactures leading brands such as Ziploc®, Glade®, Pledge®, Windex®, KIWI®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Shout®, Drano®, Mrs. Meyers®, and others. The company generates $9 billion in sales, employs nearly 13,000 people globally and sells products in virtually every country around the world. Prior to joining S.C. Johnson, Mr. Amin was with PepsiCo for 17 years as Chief Marketing Officers, and as President PepsiCo, United Kingdom and Ireland. He also spent 10 years at Procter & Gamble in brand management, working in the U.S., Germany, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland. Mr. Amin is currently a board member of The Elizabeth Arden Company, Grocery Manufacturers Association, and American Pakistan Foundation.

Mr. Amin holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management-Northwestern University, and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from De Montfort University in the UK in 2009.

Indranil Bagchi VicePresident,PayerInsights&Access•PfizerInc.

Dr. Indranil Bagchi is Vice President and Head of Payer Insights and Access at Pfizer. Dr. Bagchi’s team has responsibility for creating and executing comprehensive market access strategies for the entire Pfizer portfolio, through the integration of pricing and reimburse-ment, health technology assessment and health economic modeling activities. Dr. Bagchi is also the Chair of Pfizer’s Global Asian Alliance, a Colleague Resource Group dedicated towards furthering the cause of Asia Pacific Americans at Pfizer, as well as a member of Pfizer’s Diversity Worldwide Leadership Committee. In 2010, he was recognized in Pharmaceutical Executive magazine’s annual roster of Emerging Leaders, “The New Breed of Leadership.” Prior to joining Pfizer, Dr. Bagchi was with Wyeth, SmithKline Beecham and GlaxoSmithKline.

Dr. Bagchi has an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, a master’s degree in Pharmacy and Healthcare Administration and a doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical Socioeconomics.

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Wei Young Brian Founder•WEIBeauty,Inc.

Wei Young Brian moved to the U.S. from China after college in 1985 to continue her graduate studies. In 1993 Ms. Brian returned to China with her family and, inspired by the Avon and Mary Kay business models in the U.S., she built a direct selling beauty business from the ground up, going door-to-door. In just four short years, she created a beauty empire - 40,000 women strong. The successful business was dissolved because the Chinese government put an overnight ban on direct-to-consumer businesses. Returning to the U.S. with an autistic son, Ms. Brian turned to traditional Chinese herbal medicine and, in a short time, her son’s health and condition dramatically improved. She launched a new brand, Wei East and repeated her formula for success through the Home Shopping Network, and it grew into a multi-million dollar business and continues to be one of the network’s top selling beauty brands. In 2008, Ms. Brian developed an exclusive line for Space NK boutiques, WEI, infused with powerful medical grade Chinese herbals. Wei East and WEI skincare have expanded to the UK, Australia, Germany, Russia, China and Hong Kong.

Vincent T. Chang Partner•WollmuthMaher&DeutschLLP

Vincent T. Chang, is a partner at Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch in New York City. Mr. Chang has appeared in courts in many states of the country and has worked on some of the largest matters ever filed in the federal courts including the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. He serves as the Co-Chair of the Federal Courts Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association, and as President of the Asian American Bar Association of New York. Mr. Chang has worked to increase the number of Asian judges in New York and in 2010, received the New York City Bar Association’s Diversity Champion Award. Mr. Chang has been appointed to the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Judicial Indepen-dence and on the New York State Bar Association’s Committees on Federal Legislation and on Court Structure. Mr. Chang was also appointed to the Disciplinary Committee of the First Department, the body that hears certain disciplinary complaints lodged against attor-neys. He also serves on the NY City Bar Association’s Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Chang graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

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James Wu Chen Owner•JWCArchitect,PLLC.

Born in Wuhu, Anhui province, China, James Wu Chen has practiced architecture since 1984. Following completion of an urban planning program from college, he worked in the Wuhu Urban Planning and Design Institute in China and several architectural firms in New York City. As a practicing architect, Mr. Chen has developed a comprehensive knowledge about sustainable design strategies and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) credit system; restoration of historical landmark buildings or site, as well as Zoning Resolutions; building code requirements; multiple dwelling law and construction means and method. He is particularly experienced in designing larger-scale commercial complexes. Before starting his own firm he was a senior associate with Bhavnani & King Architects, New York, NY.

Ken Chin Partner•KramerLevinNaftalis&FrankelLLP

Ken Chin is currently a partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP where he heads the Banking and Finance Group. His clients include corporate businesses, hedge funds, private equity funds, commercial banks and high net worth individuals. Mr. Chin was born in New York City and grew up near Chinatown. He is fluent in Chinese. Among other acco-lades, Mr. Chin has been listed over multiple years as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” and separately as a “New York Super Lawyer”. He actively gives back to the Chinese-American community and is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, a not-for-profit federally qualified community health center, which provides quality, culturally relevant and affordable health care, education and advocacy to underserved Asian Americans.

Mr. Chin graduated from Columbia with a degree in economics, magna cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He attended Harvard Law School where he was the Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation.

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Stanley Chiu VicePresident,InvestmentManagementDivisionGoldman,Sachs&Co.

Stanley Chiu began his career at Goldman Sachs in New York in 1997 advising corpo-rate pensions, endowments and foundations on structuring and implementing investment portfolios. He led the firm’s Portfolio Advisory Group in Hong Kong, advising Asia-based institutions and families on asset allocation and portfolio implementation. He is part of the Investment Management Division in New York, advising institutions and families on invest-ment and wealth planning strategies. Mr. Chiu is Co-Vice Chair of the Museum of Chinese in America Board of Trustees. He is head of his Phillips Exeter Academy class annual giving effort. He also serves as a class Trustee of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, and is on the board of the St. James Preschool in Montclair, New Jersey. He is a guest lecturer at the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University and The George Washington University.

Mr. Chiu received his MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and his BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia. He received the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Ling Chow DeputyGeneralCounsel,Corporate•AssuredGuarantyCorp.

Ling Chow has been Assured Guaranty Corp.’s Deputy General Counsel since August 2004. Ms. Chow also became the Deputy General Counsel of Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. and Municipal Assurance Corp. when those companies were acquired by Assured Guaranty. Assured Guaranty Corp., Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. and Municipal Assurance Corp. are the principal U.S. operating subsidiaries of Assured Guaranty Ltd., which is a public company the common shares of which are listed on the NY Stock Exchange under the symbol AGO. Through its operating subsidiaries, Assured Guaranty provides financial guaranty insurance in the U.S. and international public finance, infrastructure and structured finance markets. Ms. Chow joined Assured Guaranty as a transactional lawyer in 2002. In 2009, she has been Assured Guaranty’s principal corporate lawyer and in 2014 she has been the head of its combined corporate and regulatory legal group.

Ling Chow is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. She is also a graduate of Harvard College.

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Duke Chung Co-Founder•Parature

Duke Chung co-founded Parature with a vision to provide superior customer support software accessible via the Internet, and today, Parature’s Software-as-a-Service product suite supports millions of end users worldwide in diverse industries from government to higher education, gaming and interactive media, services and associations, and software and technology. Mr. Chung has been acknowledged for his innovation. He has been named to Fast Company’s Fast 50, Washington Business Journal’s 40 under 40, the CIT Gap 50, Washington Techway’s Top Technology Executives, SmartCEO magazine’s Smart100, Washingtonian magazine’s Power 150 and Bisnow Media’s ‘Top 35 under 35 Entrepreneur’ in the Washington, DC region. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences throughout the country including Digital East, the Customer Management Summit, CRM Magazine, SearchCRM, the Ernst & Young Cloud Computing Summit, the Social CRM Expo and Executive Biz. His speaking engagements also include the Stanford Business School, Darden School of Business, George Washington University, Georgetown University and the MIT Enterprise Forum.

Mr. Chung holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.

Pil Chung NationalServiceLineLeader-Actuarial,Risk,&AdvancedAnalyticsDeloitteConsultingLLC.

Pil Chung is the National Leader for Actuarial, Risk, and Advanced Analytics services for Deloitte Consulting LLC. Born in South Korea, Mr. Chung moved with his parents and sib-lings to New York in 1968. After getting his undergraduate degree he moved to Singapore where he started a high tech consultancy and ventured into new businesses ranging from manufacturing to software. After 7 years in Asia, he returned to the U.S. to lead the strategy division of a growing internet consultancy and studying for his MBA. He joined Deloitte Consulting where he believed he could find a balance of entrepreneurial spirit to grow within the context of a well-established firm with resources and support, and quickly rose through the ranks to become a Partner, developing a new practice, and then being appointed to lead a national service line / business unit for Deloitte. He was the co-leader for the Human Capital Asian Diversity & Inclusion efforts in Deloitte and a former NY board member of Ascend.

Mr. Chung earned a B.Sc. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and an MBA from NYU Stern School of business.

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Aparna Dave SeniorCounsel•WellsFargo

Aparna M. Dave is Senior Counsel in the Houston office of Wells Fargo. Ms. Dave supports the company’s Corporate Marketing, Social Media, Regional Marketing and Corporate Communications groups. Ms. Dave’s practice focuses on advising clients on issues including brand protection strategies, trademark, copyright, false advertising, sweepstakes and con-tests, cause marketing, sponsorship contracts and publicity rights, and she has assisted clients in developing and implementing policies and procedures in these areas. She is recognized by her colleagues as a leading attorney on digital marketing and new media and is regularly asked to speak on a variety of subjects at the intersection of social media and the law. She is an Advisory Board Member of the South Texas College of Law Transactional Practice Center, active in the South Asian Bar Association, and is a member of the State Bar of Texas Minority Counsel Program’s Steering Committee, charged with developing a conference focused on improving diversity of minorities and women in the legal profession.

Ms. Dave holds a BS in Business and Political Science from Houston Baptist University and received her law degree from South Texas College Law School.

Lisa Follo VPofBroadcastandBrandedEntertainment•Macy’s

Lisa Follo is the Vice President of Broadcast and Branded Entertainment for Macy’s. Ms. Follo joined Macy’s during the consolidation of Macy’s Inc. from seven regional divi-sions to the newly created national Macy’s Marketing Corp Division in 2007. She is a strategic marketer with extensive corporate advertising experience from renowned agencies including: Young & Rubicam, Inc., Chiat/Day, Ogilvy & Mather, MediaVest, etc. working on top brands: Coca Cola, Burger King, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Milk PEP, Duracell, Nickelodeon, etc.

Ms. Follo has developed broadcast media strategies for Macy’s, including branded entertain-ment programs. Currently, “Macy’s iHeartRadio Rising Star” program is a finalist for the 2014 Media Global Awards in Rome. She also manages the entire broadcast planning and buying for all TV/Video and Radio/Audio, both nationally and locally for Macy’s. Macy’s is currently leading the retail category among its competitors.

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Neer Gupta AssistantGeneralCounsel,IP•VerizonCommunications,Inc.

Neer Gupta is an intellectual property attorney with over 20 years of experience in the areas of patent litigation, licensing, and strategy. Mr. Gupta joined Verizon Communications in 2008 and is currently Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property. In this role, Mr. Gupta is responsible for transactional matters involving the company’s intellectual property, and is the lead negotiator for the company’s patent licensing entity. Prior to joining Verizon, Mr. Gupta was Executive Counsel for The Walt Disney Company, in Burbank, CA, where he was responsible for establishing a comprehensive patent strategy. His work at Disney included establishing patent committees, managing patent litigation, responding to incoming patent license offers, and setting the overall patent strategy of the company. Prior to Disney, Mr. Gupta provided intellectual property advisory services to Fortune 500 companies while at ThinkFire Services, and was a litigation associate at two major law firms in New York City.

Mr. Gupta received his Bachelor of Engineering degree, magna cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Math from Vanderbilt University, and his law degree from New York University.

Sabrina HoSang ChiefOperatingOfficer•CaribbeanFoodDelights

Sabrina HoSang joined her family’s business, Caribbean Food Delights, in 2001 as Director of Operations. In 2006, she was promoted to Chief Operating Officer, overseeing various departments such as Production, Human Resources, Quality Assurance, Customer Service, Research and Development, Corporate Sponsorship, Accounting, Sales, Marketing, Public Relations, Food Safety & Security and other entities of the Company. In 2007, the Universal Peace Federation recognized Ms. HoSang as an Ambassador for Peace and, the company received the prestigious Small Business Forbes Enterprise Award. In 2008, Isaiah’s Temple of Mt. Hope recognized her as Business Woman of the Year. In 2013, she received the Caribbe-an Life 20 Under 40 Award. She is actively involved in her family’s charitable organization, The Vincent HoSang Family Foundation (VHFF). A major contribution of US$150,000, gave six full scholarships for the entrepreneurial program at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. In 2010, she became a mentor for G.O.O.D. for Girls, a MENTOR/ National Mentoring Partnership program.

Ms. HoSang earned attended and in 2001, graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Business Admin-istration and a Minor in Management Information Systems from Villanova University.

Syed Imteaz Director•Barclays

Syed Imteaz is a Director in the investment banking division at Barclays. Mr. Imteaz covers technology, real estate, natural resources, and FIG sectors structuring and advising clients on convertible financing, equity derivatives, structured share repurchases. Born and raised in Bangladesh, Mr. Imteaz came to the United States fifteen years ago as a student. Over his decade-long Wall Street career, Mr. Imteaz has led 100+ transactions with total deal value exceeding $50bn. Mr. Imteaz was elected twice to Barclays’ Global Advisory Commit-tee - a group of bankers who work with senior management on issues impacting the junior bankers in the firm. Prior to starting in finance, he worked at the Immigration & Foreign Policy department for former U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mr. Imteaz mentors immigrant students who want to join investment banking, and several of his mentees now work on Wall Street.

Mr. Imteaz graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin.

Naeem Khalid ChiefExecutiveOfficer•Sam’sFoodStores

Naeem Khalid is the founder and CEO of CCO LLC, a Connecticut based commercial real estate company with an emphasis on the convenience store and gasoline industry. Established in 1992, CCO LLC, currently operates three commercial chains, Sam’s Food Stores, DB Mart, and Smoker’s Discount World, across the East Coast and Canada. CCO also has various divisions such as wholesale warehouses, parking lots, and shopping plazas. Mr. Khalid is an avid community leader and supporter. In 2010, he was appointed to the Connecticut Competiveness Council by Governor M. Jodi Rell, to promote the state’s strategic economic development plan. As the Founder of Sam’s Children, Inc., a nonprofit which helps one to two families and children per week fight serious diseases via coordination with area hospitals. As a supporter for the Connecticut Pakistani community, Mr. Khalid is a founding member of the Pakistani American Association of Connecticut (PAACT), Adviser to Friends of Pakistan (FOP), and a trustee to Madina Academy.

Mr. Khalid received his BA with honors and his MA from the University of Karachi.

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Shahid Khan ManagingPartner•MeridianAdvisoryGroup,LLC

Shahid Khan is Managing Partner for MAG (Meridian Advisory Group, LLC), a boutique management consulting firm that focuses on the entire content ecosystem, from media firms to device firms to cable MSOs and Telcos. MAG works with clients such as Scholastic, Conde Nast, Cablevision, Motorola, A&E, Barnes & Noble and Disney to launch new digital products/services, and advise on strategic initiatives. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of MediaMorph, the leading global provider of cloud-based software and Big-Data services for content creators, programmers and distributors; clients include Cablevision, E! Networks, HBO, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Starz, Warner Bros, AMC, BBC Worldwide, ITV, Epix, Mediacom. Investors include Google and Smedvig Capital. Mr. Khan was a Senior Partner at IBB Consulting, Managing Director and Head of Entertainment and Information Services industry practices at KPMG Consulting/BearingPoint and Partner at IBM Global Services in Communication Industry. He serves on the Boards of OPEN and Developments in Literacy.

Mr. Khan earned an MBA in Marketing and Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and is a Fellow at U. Penn’s Wharton School of Business.

Jai Khanna Partner•BrillsteinEntertainmentPartners

Jai Khanna is a 15 year veteran at Brillstein Entertainment Partners (BEP), premiere enter-tainment company. Managing a diverse roster of A-list talent including Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Anniston, Vin Diesel, Adam Sandler and Amy Adams. BEP has been nominated for over 20 Emmy’s and Academy Awards; produced some of television’s most critically acclaimed series’ such as ‘The Sopranos’ and “Politically Incorrect”. The film division produces box office hits, “12 Years of Slave,” “World War Z,” ‘The Tree of Life’, ‘The Departed’, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and ‘Troy’. In 2012-13, BEP’s films had worldwide box office grosses totaling approximately $3 billion dollars. BEP was profiled in Forbes magazine as “Hollywood’s most successful management and production firm.” Mr. Khanna personally nurtures a client roster that includes South Asian talent, producers and financiers. He is regarded as an entrepreneur helping launch production ventures in film, television, helping guide investments within the community. Mr. Khanna was profiled in The Hollywood Reporter as ‘one of the top 35 executives in Hollywood’. Indiaspora has recognized Mr. Khanna as one of the 100 influential Indian American leaders in the U.S.

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John K. Kim Shareholder•GreenbergTraurig,LLP

John K. Kim is a shareholder with the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig. Mr. Kim a registered patent attorney, admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey, as well as before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has successfully prepared and prosecuted numerous U.S. and foreign patent applications in diverse technology areas. Mr. Kim also counsels clients in the resolution of intellectual property disputes. Mr. Kim is a winner of a 2014 Client Choice award. Mr. Kim is a member of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey, the Asian American Bar Association of New York, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the New York Intellectual Property Law Association. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Beautiful Foundation, an Asian American community foundation based in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Mr. Kim received a bachelor of science in engineering degree from The Cooper Union in 1991 and a JD degree from Rutgers School of Law - Newark in 1994.

M. Narendra Kini PresidentandCEO•MiamiChildren’sHospital

M. Narendra Kini is President and CEO of Miami Children’s Health System and Miami Children’s Hospital, a 289-bed nationally recognized pediatric specialty hospital in Miami-Dade county with nine pediatric outpatient centers located throughout Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Dr. Kini has been instrumental in expanding the hospital’s network to bring Miami Children’s Hospital-quality pediatric care to children and families throughout the region and with the hospital’s enhanced global telemedicine effort to South America as well as to many other nations. Dr. Kini, who is a board-certified pediatrician, is committed to improving the health status of children. Before joining Miami Children’s, Dr. Kini served as Executive Vice President for Clinical and Physician Services at Trinity Health, the fourth largest Catholic health system in the United States. Prior to Trinity Health, Dr. Kini held various positions related to information technology at GE Medical Systems, the latest as Director of the GE Healthcare Leadership Institute. He previously served as Ancillary and Support Vice President at the Children’s Health System in Milwaukee.

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Chris Koh DirectorandGlobalR&DFellow•PepsiCo

Chris Koh is Director and Global R&D Fellow at PepsiCo. Mr. Koh’s research interests are in the areas of heat, mass and momentum transfer – specifically as applied to food process-ing. He and his research team leverage fundamental understanding in food chemistry, physics and engineering to develop novel food process technologies. They partner with PepsiCo’s development teams worldwide to leverage these technologies to improve the manufacturing of current products and to create new offerings to expand PepsiCo’s food portfolio. As a PepsiCo Fellow, he also leads research on the advancement of product- and process-development using state-of-the-art simulation modeling tools. He is involved developing junior PepsiCo scientists and engineers for technical careers in the consumer packaged goods industry. Mr. Koh sits on the industrial advisory boards for UC Davis’ Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Center of Advanced Processing and Packaging Studies.

Mr. Koh received a B.S. from the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, both in Chemical Engineering.

Elizabeth Koraca SeniorProducer/Correspondent•ThomsonReuters

Elizabeth Koraca is a Senior Producer and Correspondent at Reuters Television in New York City, where she runs operations on the China/U.S. business TV news desk. Broadcasting live from Reuters studios and the NASDAQ stock exchange, Ms. Koraca covers the latest breaking U.S. business news for her audience in Asia. Ms. Koraca helped Reuters set up the Reuters/CCTV Bureau in Singapore, where she also provided live daily reports on the Asian markets while she was on assignment. She holds a leadership position with The Newswomen’s Club of New York as a board member for the Front Page Awards for journalistic excellence; the awards are among the most prestigious in American journal-ism. At the Overseas Press Club of America, she is head judge for the David Kaplan Award. Prior to Reuters, she worked in television news at NBC, NY1, BronxNet and PBS. Prior to her television career, served the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing as a policy adviser with the Canadian government, working on legislation to overhaul of the emergency prepared system following 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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Gilbert Liu Partner•KramerLevinNaftalis&FrankelLLP

Gilbert Liu is a partner of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, where he serves as the head of the securitization and structured finance practice group. Mr. Liu specializes in complex esoteric private and public securitization and structured finance transactions and has been involved in some of the most innovative transactions in history. These include the first securitization of solar assets and government energy efficiency contracts; securitizations of intellectual property including the songwriter royalties, and international syndication rights of hit television situation comedies and trademark and/or franchise licensing revenues related to many famous brands. Mr. Liu is listed as a leader in his field by Chambers USA and Legal 500 US. He won the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Best Under 40 Award. He serves on the board of directors for Volunteers of Legal Service, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing pro bono assistance to low-income New Yorkers.

Mr. Liu received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the NYU School of Law.

Paula Williams Madison ChairmanandCEO•MadisonMediaManagementLLCPaula Williams Madison is Chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a Los Angeles limited liability company which invests primarily in emerging media, entertainment and communication businesses. In 2011, Ms. Madison retired from NBCUniversal, where she had been Executive Vice President of Diversity as well as a Vice President of the General Electric Company (GE) then the parent company of NBCU. During her 22 years with NBCU, she held a number of successful leadership roles, including President and General Manager of NBC4 Los Angeles, Los Angeles Regional General Manager for NBCU’s Telemundo TV stations and Vice President and News Director of NBC4 New York.

Ms. Madison who is from Harlem, NYC, made an incredible discovery while searching for clues about her long-lost grandfather, Samuel Lowe aka Lowe Ding Chow. She is creator and executive producer of Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China, a documentary about three successful black siblings from Harlem discovering their heritage , which takes them from Toronto to Jamaica to China, finally reuniting them with 300 Chinese relatives they didn’t know existed and vice versa. Ms. Madison’s Hakka name is Lowe Siu Na.

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Ko Makabe Director•KohnPedersenFoxAssociates

Ko Makabe joined Kohn Pederson Fox in 1997 and since then has worked as a senior designer on a number of the firm’s most notable commercial, mixed-use, and hospitality projects throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Notably, he worked on the Nihonbashi 1-Chome Building, which received a number of awards, and the Mori Tower at Roppongi Hills. In China, the recently completed 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center, presently China’s tallest building, and which has been recognized with several prestigious design awards including the Society of American Registered Archi-tects’ Design Award for Excellence (2009), the American Council of Engineering Companies National Engineering Excellence Awards Honor Award (2009), the MIPIM Asia Awards’ Participants’ Choice Award (2009), and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s Best Tall Building Worldwide Award (2008). Presently, he is also leading the design of a super high-rise tower in Doha, Qatar, a 2.2-million-SF mixed-use development that will feature office, hotel, residential, and retail along the waterfront.

Mr. Makabe received his Bachelor of Architecture from Oklahoma State University. In 1998, he was a recipient of the Caudill Traveling Fellowship.

Hussein Malik ManagingDirector•JPMorganChase

Hussein Malik is the Global Head of Investor Client Management, Head of North American Structuring Businesses and Head of U.S. Regional Offices for Markets and Investor Services Sales at JPMorgan. As a Managing Director leading these units, he has responsibility for clients who have more than $10 trillion assets under management and leads a team of over 100 professionals. Mr. Malik has direct responsibility for the senior (C-suite) relationships with the firm’s largest Markets and Investor Services Clients globally.

Mr. Malik came to the U.S. from Pakistan at 18, to attend the Engineering and Woodrow Wilson schools at Princeton University. After completing a degree in Electrical Engineering and obtaining a Certificate in Public Policy, he joined JPMorgan in 1994 as an Analyst in the firm’s entry program. Today, Mr. Malik plays a sponsoring role for junior talent within JPMorgan, serving as a co-head of the Analyst and Associate Development Council. He is a supporter of both the Horace Mann School in New York City, as well as “Development in Literacy” (DIL), an organization that builds schools for under-privileged children in remote areas of Pakistan.

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Shekar Natarajan CIO/VPofSupplyChainTechnology,ISCM•TheWaltDisneyCompany

Shekar Natarajan is a senior executive at The Walt Disney Company on the team delivering technology solutions that align with business segment strategies, protect brand reputation, enhance enterprise efficiency, and promote collaborative innovation across the enterprise. Mr. Natarajan is a leader in supply chain innovation of global corporations. He co-authored ground-breaking books – Planning by Design and Simplified Systematic Network Planning. His insights are grounded in diverse experience with three of the world’s leading and largest beverage companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Anheuser Busch InBev, as well as with The Walt Disney Company. At Coca-Cola, he challenged existing paradigms in the beverage industry by introducing game-changing, business delivery systems that have transformed the field. As the Director of Supply Chain at Pepsi Bottling Company now part of PepsiCo, he revolutionized the company’s supply chain operations and converted the logistics network into a value center, and won the Consumer Goods Technology “Visionary Award” and the “Supply Chain Innovation Award” for the team he led. At Anheuser Busch InBev, he directed supply chain planning. He is an advisor for the White House-sponsored Catastrophic Disaster Recovery Plan program.

Prashanth Palakurthi FounderandCEO•ReflexisSystems

Prashanth Palakurthi is the Founder and CEO of Reflexis Systems, pioneering a new category of retail execution management in 2001. Today over 100 retailers operating 200+ brands worldwide use Reflexis products to increase revenues, reduce costs and ensure compliance across sprawling store-estate. For eight years Reflexis has been rated amongst the best Retail software companies when ranked on innovation, reliability and customer service. Mr. Palakurthi serves as an advisor to the Board of the Giving Back Foundation spending time on autism research and is a frequent contributor to educational programs at his uni-versity. He and his wife are well known in their community for their U.S. focused charity work. This month they will donate to a music program to raise funds for U.S. Armed Forces veterans returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr. Palakurthi is a double graduate with Masters in Mathematics and Management Studies from the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India.

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Mary Pan ManagingDirector,UNHWMetroNYRegion•CitiPrivateBank

Mary Agnes Pan is a Managing Director and Senior Private Banker at Citi Private Bank in New York. In this role she designs and delivers tailored strategies for the financial needs of ultra-high net worth clients. She advises clients on asset and liability management in addition to estate planning strategies. Ms. Pan has over 35 years of financial services experience and was previously with HSBC Private Bank where she was a Managing Director and Senior Private Banker, and managed a team of Private Bankers. Before joining HSBC in 2000, she was a Private Banker with NationsBank (now Bank of America) in New York. Mary previously worked at Citi earlier in her career, serving as a Private Banker in New York and also spent six years in commercial banking with Citi in Hong Kong. Ms. Pan is a board member and secretary for The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center and is particularly passionate in raising funds for The Spring Bud Program a non-profit organization supporting orphan girls in China to attain high school and college education.

Ms. Pan received a BA from the University of Hawaii.

Li Chung Pei Partner•PeiPartnershipArchitectsLLP

Li Chung (Sandi) Pei is the founding partner of Pei Partnership Architects with his brother C. C. Pei. From 1976 until 1992 he practiced at the firm of I.M. Pei & Partners. For nearly four decades Mr. Pei has been involved in more than 60 projects worldwide on building types ranging from educational facilities, laboratories, and museums to commercial office, hotel and residential projects. Among his award-winning projects are the MIT Arts + Media Technologies Facilities, Cambridge, MA, the Creative Artists Agency Headquarters, Beverly Hills, CA, the Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong, the Bank of China Head Office Building, Beijing, China, the Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, DC., and the Dancing Water Theater in Macau, China. He served on the Board of the NY Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Christie’s. He currently is the Vice President of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art.

Mr. Pei earned his BA degree mcl from Harvard University and MA in architecture from the Graduate School of Design.

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Virachart Pokpoonpipat President•JaiYaThaiRestaurant

Virachart Pokpoonpipat was born into a Thai-Chinese family in Thailand and immigrated to the U.S. in 1976. In 1978 Mr. Pokpoonpipat opened his first restaurant, Jai Ya Thai, in Queens, New York. Over the next 30 years, he opened three more restaurants of the same name – two in Manhattan and one on Long Island. In 1982 Mr. Pokpoonpipat established Pokpoon Realty Inc. to manage the 15 rental apartments that he owns. In 2011 he estab-lished Pokpoon Property LLC to manage three more apartments and one retail rental prop-erty that he owns in Manhattan. He established C P C Major Construction Corp. in 1992 to allow him to carry out renovation work in the various properties he owns and to build a Thai temple, Wat Buddha Thai Thavorn Vanaram, in Queens.

A family business, his wife Wanne is the main driver behind his successful restaurant business; she is the executive chef. His son Charlesvuth works hard as General Manager of Jai Ya Thai Restaurant.

Sanjay Puri Chairman•Optimos,Inc.

Sanjay Puri is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Optimos Inc., a strategy and enterprise information technology company based in Reston, Virginia. The company was founded in 1994 through a grant from NIH and today its clients including the Library of Congress, Federal Reserve Bank, National Archives and Records Administration, U.S. Mint, and the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. Puri is also the founder and CEO of the Alliance for U.S. India Business and regularly leads delegations of business, political and higher education leaders to India. In 2011 and 2013 he hosted two of the largest U.S. India education conclaves, attended by over 100 education and policy leaders from the U.S. and over 1,000 from India. He also serves as the Chairman of the U.S.-India Political Action Committee (USINPAC), a national, bipartisan political action committee representing over 2.5 million Indian-Americans. USINPAC works closely with members of Congress from both sides of the aisle, as well as with the administration, to ensure that the community’s concerns are addressed. Mr. Puri also hosted the first ever U.S. Congressional India Renewable Energy Conference held on Capitol Hill.

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Ram Raghavan GeneralManager,CICLATAM,LatinAmericaDivisionColgate-Palmolive

Ram Raghavan is General Manager of Colgate’s Latam CIC. Mr. Raghavan has worked for Colgate since 1997 and has had various assignments in India, Hong Kong, Canada and China. He has been an invaluable addition to the Latam division team, serving as an inspirational innovation leader for the division over the last 18 months. He has helped raise Colgate’s Category Innovation Center to new levels of creative and operational excellence. The team has launched over 25 important new product bundles which have contributed to expanding Colgate’s leadership in numerous categories. Perhaps most important, though, is the energy, passion, and creativity which Mr. Raghavan has infused throughout the organiza-tion which have helped to raise the level of the entire innovation organization.

Ram Raghavan holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Narsee Monjee College and an MBA from Jamnalal Balaj Institute in Mumbai.

John S. Relton ManagingDirector/Founder•StraitCapitalCompanyLtd

John S. Relton founded Strait Capital Company Ltd in 2007 to provide financial oversight and fund administration for hedge funds, private equity funds, asset managers, and family offices. Strait Capital functions as a specialized chief financial officer, chief operations officer, and compliance officer for its clients. Currently, the firm oversees in excess of $1.2 billion in assets.

Mr. Relton began his career with KPMG LLP, providing assurance services and consulting for global investment companies. From there he became the chief financial and compliance officer of a significant hedge fund and fund of funds complex. Mr. Relton is the recipient of the Dallas Business Journal’s 2013 Minority Business Leader Award and 2014 “40 Under 40” honoree. He serves as a board member for the Dallas Contemporary and The Arts Community Alliance and as a board member of the accounting alumni and professional advisory board for Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business. He is also a member of the host committee for the Great Investors’ Best Ideas Foundation.

Mr. Relton graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BBA in Accounting and MS in Accounting.

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Bala V. Sathyanarayanan ExecutiveVicePresident,BusinessTransformationandHumanResources•XeroxTechnologyBusiness

Bala V. Sathyanarayanan is Executive Vice President, Business Transformation and Human Resources for Xerox Technology Business. Mr. Sathyanarayanan partners with global busi-ness enterprise leaders on the strategic design and execution of transformation plans that help drive profitable business goal accomplishments. Prior to joining Xerox, Mr. Sathyana-rayanan was Sr. Director at Hewlett Packard Inc., providing HR leadership to the business leadership teams in the Americas region, including those in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the U.S.A, and other Latin America countries. Prior to joining HP, he served in leadership roles at Avaya, Polaris Software, Coca-Cola and at United Technologies – Otis Elevator Com-pany. Mr. Sathyanarayanan is active in the Society and lectures on management at Cornell, Rutgers and other Universities. He takes keen interest in mentoring executives and graduate students and is an advisor at The Engagement Institute of The Conference Board.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and MBA from the University of Madras in India. He also received a Master of Human Resources degree from Rutgers University and graduated from the Managing Human Capital program from Harvard Business School.

Anish Shah ManagingDirector,GlobalHeadAcquisitionFinanceMorganStanley

Anish Shah is a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley’s Global Capital Markets Division and currently heads the investment grade acquisition finance business globally. Mr. Shah has been responsible for structuring some of the highest profile acquisition financings around the globe, including Verizon’s record breaking acquisition of Verizon Wireless, Mylan’s acquisi-tion of Agila, Abbvie’s separation financing from Abbott Labs, Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal and Dow Chemical’s acquisition of Rohm & Haas. Mr. Shah has served on the Global Capital Markets Management Committee since 2013. He has been very actively involved with Morgan Stanley’s recruiting and talent management initiatives and served as Co-Head of Talent Management for Global Capital Markets from 2010-2013. In addition, he is captain of the Global Capital Markets NYU Recruiting Team. Mr. Shah was promoted to managing director in 2009 and took on global responsibilities for the acquisition finance business in 2011.

Mr. Shah received a BS in Finance and Accounting from New York University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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Farhan Sharaff SeniorManagingDirector/ChiefInvestmentOfficer-EquitiesGuggenheimPartners

Farhan Sharaff is the Chief Investment Officer-Equities at Guggenheim Partners and oversees a team of 60 professionals managing in excess of $50 billion is assets in a mix of actively managed and Beta strategies. Mr. Sharaff has thirty years of experience in invest-ment research and investment management. Prior to joining Guggenheim Partners, he was a partner and Chief Investment Officer at MJX Capital Advisors; global Chief Investment Officer at CIGNA Corporation, a global health care insurance company; at Zurich Scud-der Investments, where he managed a team of 500 professionals in 10 countries with $450 billion under management. Mr. Sharaff worked at Citigroup for 15 years as an analyst, portfolio manager and as a Chief Investment Officer based out of London, Zurich and New York. Mr. Sharaff sits on the boards of Transparent Value Trust and Guggenheim Global Investments.

Mr. Sharaff has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aston (UK) and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Manchester Business School (UK).

Bobby Sharma SeniorV.P.,GlobalBasketball&Strategic•IMG

Bobby Sharma is Senior Vice President, Global Basketball & Strategic Initiatives for IMG Worldwide, Inc. Mr. Sharma leads the growth of IMG’s basketball business interests around the world, with a focus on emerging markets, including South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where he is developing the company’s exclusive commercial rights to basketball in India and Nigeria. Prior to joining IMG, he was Vice President & General Counsel of the NBA Development League. Prior to joining the NBA, he practiced law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

In 2009, Mr. Sharma was named one of the 25 Most Influential South Asian Executives in the Media & Entertainment Industry by Korn/Ferry International. In 2010, the Corporate Counsel Award by the South Asian Bar Association of New York. In 2011, the Sports Coun-sel of the Year award by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel, and the Rising Star Executive award from Media Partners Global. In 2012 the Basketball Federation of India Award. In 2013, was named one of the “Top 50 Coolest” people of South Asian origin by DesiClub.com.

Mr. Shah earned his B.A. and J.D. from Duke University.

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Albert G. Singh, M.D. Physician•Orthopedic&SpineSurgery

After obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, Albert G. Singh became the first student from the electrical engineering department to go on to medical school and pursue further training as a specialist in Interventional Spine and Pain Medicine.

In 2011, be became Founder and President of Suri Medical, LLC, a company which provides independent consultations and medical evaluations for those suffering from debilitating disabilities, including injuries resulting from natural disasters. The company works closely with the Social Security Administration to properly assess those with disabilities so that they may attain access to health services and live richer, more dignified lives. Dr. Singh joined Orthopedic & Spine Surgery, LLC in 2012 and was given the honor of co-owner/partner of the surgical private practice. Despite the rapidly evolving climate of healthcare, Orthopedic & Spine Surgery has remained a center of excellence and has now become a multi-specialty referral center for spine care, servicing seven counties located in east central Indiana and Ohio. Dr. Singh has authored in multiple medical textbooks such as Musculoskeletal, Sports, and Occupational Medicine and Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation.

Connie Tang PresidentandCEO•PrincessHouse

Connie Tang, is the first woman President and CEO of Princess House, a multi-level marketing (MLM) organization selling top quality house ware. Ms. Tang has built a career in network marketing focusing on empowering culturally diverse women to become success-ful independent consultants and entrepreneurs with home-based businesses. She emigrated with her parents from Hong Kong to New York’s Lower East Side, and speaks English, Spanish and Chinese. Her first MLM organization was BeautiControl, Inc., a direct market-ing company selling beauty products, where she not only developed the Hispanic market in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, but Hmong women from St. Paul, MN. Ms. Tang joined JAFRA, another beauty products direct marketing company, and was charged with overseeing 175 staff and almost 60,000 independent consultants in the U.S. and Dominican Republic and solidifying the strategic direction and development in global markets. At Princess House, Ms. Tang’s leadership showed big results for the company in just a year’s time: recruiting increased by 35 percent, orders jumped 21 percent and leaders’ average earnings went up by 23 percent.

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Raj Thakkar FounderandCEOCharterSchoolBusinessManagementInc.

Raj Thakkar, is considered a national expert and is a social entrepreneur committed to the fiscal solvency of charter schools. In 2006, he founded Charter School Business Manage-ment (CSBM), to prevent high performing charter schools from being closed due to financial mismanagement. CSBM, a recently Certified B Corp dedicated to using business to solve social problems, currently manages over $500 million in public funds providing over 100 clients with the financial “peace of mind” needed to focus on the crucial work of educating students. Proclaimed by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies of 2013, and by Crain’s New York named CSBM as one of the “Best Places to Work in NYC.” Mr. Thak-kar was named one of the Top Entrepreneurs of 2013 by Crain’s magazine and the Small Business Person of the Year for the NY district by the U.S. Small Business Administration in 2011. Mr. Thakkar is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative.

Mr. Thakkar received his Bachelors in Engineering Science from Hofstra University and MBA in Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

James Tian PresidentandCEO•CaliforniaWineCellarsInc.

James Tian is the Founder, President and CEO of California Wine Cellars Inc., a U.S. wine exporter with a sales network in both New York state and China. Based in New York, CWC is the first Chinese wine wholesaler in the United States. Mr. Tian has more than 15 years of experience in the wine industry and in 2012 he created CWC, initially devoted to California and Argentinian wines. In addition to its own brand, One Leaf, which was the exclusive wine for the 2010-2013 New York Chinese Film Festival, CWC sells wine from the Wente Family Estate, Thompkin Cellars, USA-Mendoza Valley Group and Le Vigne Winery. CWC operates its wine business through retail chains, nationwide convenient stores and institution sales.

In China, CWC’s investment distribution company LuTian (Fujian) Product Inc. has more than 2000 club members made up of high profile entrepreneurs, business owners, high soci-ety and young fashionable consumers. In the near future CWC will open tasting rooms in major cities in China where members and affiliated customer can taste and purchase wines.

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Michael Ting Director•ArborRealtyTrust

Michael Ting, is a Director with Arbor Realty Trust, a Mortgage REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) that originates and invests in a diversified portfolio of multifamily and commercial real estate-related bridge, mezzanine loans and preferred equity investments. He is responsible for operations of structuring, marketing, implementation of ABR’s Securi-tization Platform and Portfolio Management of ABR’s $2 billion collateralized debt & loan obligations portfolios and executed over $8 billion of transactions. He serves as a mentor for the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council Education Committee to young professionals. With this initiative, it facilitates mentorship to young professionals gleaning insight from those who have found success both in their careers and the industry as a whole, and whose knowledge would be an invaluable resource for their colleagues and future industry leaders. He is a Professional Member with MBA (Mortgage Bankers Association), RELA (Real Estate Lenders Association, New York Chapter), REBNY (Real Estate Board of New York) & AREAA (Asian Real Estate Association of America).

He received his Bachelor of Science in Finance & Banking degree from the St John’s University.

Ritesh Veera Director•MaximGroup

Ritesh Veera is a Director of the Maxim Group. Mr. Veera has over 11 years of investment banking and financial services experience. Mr. Veera has completed a vast array of trans-actions across different product types including IPOs, Secondaries/ Follow-on Offerings, SPACs, Registered Directs, PIPEs, Privates, Fairness Opinions and M&A mandates. Prior to joining Maxim, Mr. Veera was a Vice President at Provident group, a mid-market Investment bank serving emerging growth sectors. Prior to that, he was a Vice President at Rodman & Renshaw, where he spearheaded the India initiative and was instrumental in originating and closing several deals across sectors. In his tenure, he has managed over $2 billion in corpo-rate finance transaction. He is also an angel investor, and/or advisor in more than a dozen early-stage companies.

Mr. Veera holds an MBA from the Baruch College and holds a BBA from Mumbai University.

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Ace Watanasuparp President•DECapitalAce Watanasuparp is President and CEO of DE Capital Mortgage, Douglas Elliman’s lending arm and partnership with The Federal Savings Bank. DE Capital Mortgage, which has offices in all 5 boroughs as well as Westchester, Long Island, and the Hamptons has expanded their reach to Florida and California. Since joining the company, Mr. Watanasuparp has exceeded expectations by expanding into new markets and capturing unprecedented market share in purchase financing as well as refinancing. He has attracted talented loan officers within all of Douglas Elliman’s regions. A native New Yorker of Thai and Taiwanese ancestry, he worked in his parents restaurant business, and went on to found the Chace Restaurant Group, a full-service marketing, branding, and design group for the restaurant industry. He made an impact in the hospitality world by partnering with top Chefs such as Kittichai, Todd English and Angelo Sosa from Top Chef to create unique restaurant concepts all over Manhattan. The most recognized is “Spot Dessert Bar” in St Marks Place.

Mr. Watanasuparp earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from the University of Connecticut.

Yingli Wen TechnicalExpert•ConEdison

Dr. Yinli Wen joined Con Edison in 2001 as a Senior Engineer in its Transmission Engineering Department. In 2004 she joined Con Edison’s Cable and Splice Center for Excellence, a high-voltage cable test laboratory. As Technical Expert, she manages the Center’s Electrical Analysis and Research group. Dr. Wen’s technical expertise has provided many direct benefits to the Con Edison electric system. Dr. Wen has leadership positions in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Electric Power Research Institute and National Electric Energy Testing Research and Application Center. Dr. Wen was a recipient of the EPRI Technology Transfer Award. She holds a US patent on a termination design for power cable testing. Dr. Wen is an active member of the New York Asian community, teaching Chinese culture and language skills at the New York Chinese School in Westchester. She is also a member of the Red Silk Dancers, a traditional Chinese folk dance troop that often performs at cross-cultural community events.

Dr. Wen earned her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in Electrical and Systems Engineering and an MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix.

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Christina Wong Director,PrivateExchangeStrategy•AetnaInc.Christina Wong is the Director of Private Exchange Strategy at Aetna Inc. where she leads the efforts to create a business model for the future. Aetna is one of the nation’s leaders in health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, and disability insurance, and employee benefits. The Private Exchange Team is responsible for creating superior consumer value through the use of technology. Ms. Wong was the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Chairman, CEO and President of Aetna, Inc. responsible for driving the efficacy of management processes in Aetna’s operations and facilitating the development and implementation of a differentiated business strategy. Ms. Wong is part of the first inaugural class of the Finance Leadership and Development Program and is involved in Aetna’s Employee Resource Groups, serving as a leader in Aetna’s Asians in Motion promoting cultural awareness, inclusiveness and talent development. In 2012, Christina was the recipient of the Chairman’s Award for Excellence and Leadership.

Ms. Wong earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University and an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

Valerie Wong ManagingDirector,ChiefofStaff,OfficeoftheChairmanandCEOMorganStanley

Valerie Wong is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, based in the firm’s New York office. Ms. Wong serves as Chief of Staff to James Gorman, Morgan Stanley’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, managing the CEO’s Office and Firm management staff; liaises with senior executives, coverage officers, and clients on behalf of the CEO and Operating Committee; and covers key institutional clients across geographies as a Firm relationship manager. Prior to joining Mr. Gorman’s staff, Valerie was a senior trader in Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division and worked with various institutional clients such as hedge funds, institutional money managers, and pension funds. Valerie joined Morgan Stanley in 2004 as an analyst in the Institutional Equity Division. She was promoted to Vice President in 2009, Executive Director in 2011, and became the youngest Managing Director at the Firm in 2014.

Ms. Wong earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude and as a University and Joseph Wharton Scholar.

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Jie Xiu Counsel•EdwardsWildmanPalmerLLP

Jie Xiu is a Counsel in the Business Law Department of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, corporate and securities law and representing com-plex, high-profile M&A and securities offering projects across the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, Europe and North America. She was recognized as “Top Women Attorneys in the New York Metro Area”, New York Times Magazine, December 30, 2012 issue; and New York “Rising Star” for 2011, 2012, and 2013 in Corporate and Business section by Super Lawyer Magazine, whose recipients lawyers in the New York metro area who are 40 or under. Ms. Xiu serves as a board director, head of the Securities and Commercial Law Group, and a member of the Nomination and Election Committee of the Asian Financial Society. She was the 2013 recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to AFS Board Award, the first recipient of such award.

Ms. Xiu received her BA degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University, a MA degree from the University of International Business and Economics, and a JD degree from Seton Hall Law School.

Michael Yang SeniorV.P.&ChiefUnderwritingOfficer-SuretyAIGPropertyCasualty

Michael Yang is the Senior Vice President & Chief Underwriting Officer of AIG Global Surety Division. Mr. Yang is responsible for the underwriting, origination, production and marketing of large and complex surety risks associated with major infrastructure projects in the U.S. and around the world. He has supported a variety of industries, including global construction, shipbuilding, power and telecommunications. Mr. Yang joined AIU Surety in 1980 and has over 30 years of experience in assisting international contractors produce surety bonds in the overseas market including Chinese contractors undertaking projects in U.S. Mr. Yang is an established leader in the international surety underwriting arena and possesses extensive expertise in the Asian, Latin American, European and North American markets. AIG Global Surety is one of the leading international surety providers of the world, AIG Property Casualty has the most extensive foreign network of any insurance organiza-tion, stretching across Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

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Benjamin Zhai ManagingDirector•RussellReynoldsAssociates

Based in New York, Benjamin Zhai is Managing Director with the global executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates, and leads the firm’s China Desk - “Offshore China Center”, the strategic initiative to support the Chinese companies with global ambition and the global companies with China interests. He is passionate in developing overseas Chinese talent, and is active in supporting the Chinese community. Before joining Russell Reynolds Associates, he was based in Shanghai and Beijing, leading Egon Zehnder’s Industrial Practice in the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Zhai is actively involved in various philanthropic initiatives and social enterprises. He is the founder of Yuting Action, a not-for-profit organization providing the positive “exposure and experience” to the under-privileged children in China. He is an inaugural fellow member of Aspen Institute in China.

Mr. Zhai earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China, and an MBA from Australia National University. He is also a GMP graduate from Harvard Business School.

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